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http://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1458
Summary: Identifying patterns without any special characters...
Product: PCRE
Version: 8.32
Platform: All
OS/Version: All
Status: NEW
Severity: wishlist
Priority: low
Component: Code
AssignedTo: ph10@???
ReportedBy: alehotsky@???
CC: pcre-dev@???
Our language wraps the PCRE library functions and we've noticed that users
write regular expression functions when simple string matching or replacement
functions would work (and be significantly faster).
In those cases where the pattern string is a compile time constant and contains
no 'special characters' for pattern matching, is there a way to examine the
compiled pattern to identify that this is just semantically a string identity
match? That would allow us to either
optimize those calls directly into a string match, or issue a warning message
suggesting rewriting the code to use string functions.
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